Now that we've looked at change from a global and organizational perspective, let's narrow our focus. Let's look at what's happening in our own situation. I'd like you to find this worksheet. And I'd like you to take stock of changes that are going on in your life right now. Now, there's two dimensions that I'd like you to consider. One is, there may be changes that are impacting you that are not changes of your own choosing.
You have other people in your life that are important to you, and they may well be making some changes, and somehow that will impact you. So you'll need to write those down. As well as changes that you yourself are initiating. I'd also like you to think about a time frame that you're in the middle of right now. So recent past changes last 12 to 24 months, maybe a little bit farther if there's some significant ones, and maybe out into the near future changes that you've decided on but haven't put in place yet or even changes that you're just considering. This is information just simply for you, you can share this with your life.
But really this is your own personal stock taking, push, pause, take a moment and just take stock. Here's an example of one particular person's changes that were going on. And yours look like what yours look like. What I'd like you to consider here is, given all of these changes, what's the quality and the quantity? How many? And how significant are these changes?
Now we could think about all of these changes as balls that we might have up in the air. So quantity simply means how many balls Do we have up in the air? It could be five could be 25. Who knows? I mean, everybody has their own laws at this particular moment in time. But not all changes are equal. Not all balls have the same size or weight or shape.
The quality of the change is something to consider as well, are these essentially speed bumps in that you would look back six months from now and may not even remember this change, or is this feel like a fairly significant time Change. Now significant changes seem to fall around very common themes, major changes in health, for the better or for the worse, major changes in finance for the better or for worse, marriage and or divorce, having children birth or death. So those would be themes of major changes. So when you think about the load that you're currently carrying right now, in terms of how many and how big would you think that this moment in time for you and your history or experience with change today is quieter than normal? is about normal? Perhaps more chaotic than usual, but still very manageable?
Or is it feel like it's completely overwhelming and it feels like you're at a right angle Turner heading over a precipice because there's so many major changes underway. So this moment for you. How would you describe it